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...making every possible effort to assemble as excellent a field as possible to push Wide to a record. Ritola was invited to meet Wide, but the noted Finnish star refused to race the Swedish runner at any distance less than three miles. Theobald, a distance man who achieved an excellent reputation in his races for Columbia last year, is another star under consideration. It is reported that Cox, a sophomore at Penn State whose brilliant record during the past few years has gained him a ranking as one of the country's leading runners at distances over one mile...
...table top with the hilt of his sword, Chang continued: "The advance of the Chinese Nationalists northward from Shanghai against me (TIME, March 28 et seq.) is of international importance. If Bolshevism triumphs in China, it will triumph throughout the world. The Great Powers must help me to push the Nationalists back, South of the Yangtze River. Then I will treat with their military leader, Chiang Kaishek, on a brotherly basis. With him I have no quarrel, for I hear that in his heart he too wants to get rid of the Bolsheviks. Only two Chinese parties would then face...
Chemists with new theories to push, new information to divulge, hard questions to ask, are expected from all over the world at an "institute" or congress to be held at Pennsylvania State College by the American Chemical Society next July. Last week the Society's president, Dr. George D. Rosengarten of Philadelphia, appointed a committee to arrange and direct the institute's program. Since pure research is now being pursued as vigorously by industry as in academe, it was not surprising to find more industrial employes than college professors on the committee, which included: Dean Gerald L. Wendt...
...farmer's-friend, Congressman Dickinson of Iowa.* Whoever it was, word was passed that the House farm bloc would vote for a coal-crisis bill. Then the farm bloc offered to block the coal-crisis bill if the coal operators' congressmen would get behind their favorite farm bill and push. Closed. Silence shrouded coal while from one end of the capital to the other a fanfare of political trumpets echoed the groans of the suffering farmer...
...throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous at 65, why then, no woman need conceal her smoking. . . . The American Tobacco Co. makes eight other important brands of cigarets, so that if this advertising arouses prohibitive discrimination against Lucky Strikes, the company can push some of its other makes...